War Quotes

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. -Leon Trotsky

Accursed be he that first invented war. -Christopher Marlowe

To hold a pen is to be at war. -Voltaire

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. -Norman Schwarzkopf

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war. -George McGovern

First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that's a joke and everybody in the world knows it. -Norman Schwarzkopf

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. -Margaret J. Wheatley

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. -Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. -Bianca Jagger

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat. -Ron Paul

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. -Norman Schwarzkopf

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. -Thomas Jefferson

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil